Public Citizen and Protect Our Elections are taking aim at the FEC for dropping the ball on Rove’s failure to disclose donors. Earlier this year, FEC Commissioner Ann Ravel was so frustrated by the partisanship within the panel that she took to the op-ed pages of the New York Times to shake her fist at the way her Republican…

As the President prepares to introduce new regulations using his executive authority to create a cap-and-trade program for carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants John Boehner got one right when a reporter asked for his thoughts on the expected…

Via Lalo Alcaraz Another snark-filled guest post by the one, the only Will Durst, who’s having a little fun with those pesky, corporate 1%ers. Or as Will calls them, the Kochocracy. Take it away, Will: THE KOCHOCRACY In the bad old days, medieval German…

(DISCLAIMER: This is effectively a hate-driven, 3,000-word screed against the worst group of people in America; so, if that’s not what you’re prepared to read, then I advise you stop here. Obviously, not every single member of this contemptible…

The billionaire Koch brothers have spent hundreds of millions of dollars because they don’t want the government messing with Americans’ lives or businesses. But a film coming out this week aims to show that they’re perfectly willing to put their own thumbs on the scales of other people’s freedom, often with heartbreaking consequences. “Koch Brothers…

A huge mound of petcoke in a residential area of southeast Chicago. CREDIT: AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast Standing on South Burley avenue in southeast Chicago on Monday morning, Rolanda Watson-Clark began to feel droplets of moisture forming on her…

Author and Time magazine conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer said earlier this week the belief in global climate change is a mere “superstition” akin to the “rain dance of Native Americans.” Talking Points Memo reported on Krauthammer…

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says David and Charles Koch are one of the “main causes” of climate change. “While the Koch brothers admit to not being experts on the matter, these billionaire oil tycoons are certainly experts at contributing…

The dastardly duo are at it again. Word on the street is the Koch brothers are plotting to sink more than $125 million this year in an effort to buy Congress, outspending Republicans and Democrats combined. According to a memo titled “confidential…